16 things about me

Okay, I have been tagged twice in one week!! I feel so loved. I still do promise a real post is coming soon. Probably tonight. I still haven’t gotten my head totally wrapped around my new life, and while I know writing about it will help, I am still waiting. But I am going to try tonight.

So, thanks to Jill at So Anyways for tagging me.

Here we go:

16 Random Things About ffbgirl's Growing Up Experiences

1. I was voted on… What I mean by that is that my sister (then 4 or 5 years old) and my dad say my mom down and said we want a little brother. They took a family vote, (I always joke that mom lost—haha) and 9 months later they got ME! My dad swears that he wanted a boy until he got to the hospital and saw the daddies with their little girls and he changed his mind—good thing!

2. We lived in Yukon, Okla., when I was born. That is the home town to none other than Garth Brooks. I think that is Yukon’s only claim to fame.

3. We moved to Bedford, Texas, when I was 2 ½. I only remember living in Texas, obviously, but I sure am glad we moved there! My mom took me everywhere with her—weekly breakfast with the neighbors, bridge, bowling, grocery shopping… We were buds!

4. I met my best friends, Shannon and Amy, in Daisy Scouts in kindergarten. Their mom was our troop leader. These two girls made (and still make) me feel like a million bucks! They are the greatest friends a girl could ask for! They were my friends when no one else wanted to be, and I am forever grateful for that!

5. This one is less fun, but true… In my grade school they didn’t have cooties, they had “Abby germs.” That was no fun at all!

6. When I was in first grade or so, I saved my sister’s life. We were roller skating in the neighborhood. Sally rolled down the driveway and fell. Hard. And stopped her fall with her wrist. She fell down, she cried, I freaked. But I ran across the street and knocked on the door of our nurse neighbor. The neighbor helped Sally and I have forever in my heart known that I saved her life.

7. I had fashion courage growing up. What that really means is that I wore whatever my mom and sister said looked cool. And what they said looked cool was not always the same thing kids in my grade thought were cool. I wore really cool psychedelic stretch pants. I had bell-bottoms before they came into fashion. I had this really awesome vest my mom brought back from SoHo. I loved all this. The kids at school didn’t so much.

8. I took dance lessons from first through sixth grade. I still can’t keep the beat or demonstrate any sense of rhythm.

9. I didn’t learn how to swim until the summer after first grade. The only reason I finally learned then was because my family was going to Cancun and my mom said I couldn’t go if I didn’t learn how to swim. Then, when we got there, I couldn’t even go in the ocean because of rip tides. But man I had fun in the hotel pool! m.

10. I was in Odyssey of the Mind in sixth grade. That was actually a ton of fun! We designed a “vehicle” that was self propelled and then we made up a skit about being in the future and how this vehicle worked in the future.

11. I was obsessed with the Babysitter’s Club books when I was a kid. It really paid off when I found out I was diabetic at age 13. One of the main characters, Stacey McGill, the treasurer, the one from New York, was diabetic. One entire book (maybe No.11) was about when she found out she was diabetic, what the symptoms were, how she dealt with it, and how it was all OK. I was fairly informed about the disease when I encountered it in real life, so it wasn’t as scary as it might have otherwise been.

12. Shannon, Amy (the twins I mentioned above), Shelley (my other best friend), and I spent about two weeks every summer at my grandma’s house from the time we were 8 or 9 until we were 15. It was always a ton of fun. Plus, my cousin is two years younger than us, but he always played on a baseball team with boys who were only one year younger than us… This meant we were always surrounded by LOTS of boys, and we loved that!

13. One of those summers we wrecked the golf cart. OK, let me be more honest, we wrecked that cart several summers, but one particular summer we actually got found out that we had wrecked it. We were so cute that we didn’t really get in much trouble, but my grandma loves to bring it up and bitch about it all the time…

14. My first car was a 1994 Ford Escort. It was mauve. My friends all called it pink. It was five speed and I loved it. It served me well until I rear-ended someone my senior year, then I got my honda. My honda was also fabulous. That sucker served me really well. I drove that thing to death. Literally. I wrecked that car last labor day. Now I have a POS that I am trying to sell. Anyone looking for a cheap POS??

15. I had braces. Twice. Who has braes twice?? The first time was during fourth grade and it was just on my top front four teeth. They were trying to pull those four closer together so as to make room for two more teeth I guess I really needed—haha. Then I survived an expander—yuck—and a lip bumper. This weird little device kept my bottom lip from pushing my bottom teeth in. Then, when all that was done, I got braces. Again. This time they were the real deal, all the way across, top and bottom. I was pretty lucky, though, I got done with them by ninth grade!

16. I wanted to try out for cheerleading, but my mom wouldn’t let me. Later in life she told me she knew the other kids would make fun of me so she prevented that from happening. My mom is freaking awesome!

Oh, I tag jitta and kilgore trout, and welcome YOU to join in the fun, too.

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